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TheWhiteRose000

Posted 03 May 2010 - 03:12 PM

happyrock

Posted 03 May 2010 - 04:31 PM

happyrock

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try hereRAIDDrive is designed to break the throughput bottleneck in the storage subsystem by removing the bandwidth limitation of the SATA bus. The PCIe x8 interface used by RAIDDrive SSDs supports 2GB/sec bandwidth, more than ten times that of the SATA-II 3Gbps bus, and five times greater than the not yet available SATA-III bus.

The final conclusion depends on pricing up and down the lineup, which is probably too expensive for enthusiast PCs (we know that the 1TB RAIDDrive GS, for gamers and enthusiasts, will be priced at $4,999). RAID controllers cost a few hundred dollars; 128MB SSDs with Indilinx controllers cost another $250 each. We’ve probably gotten close to the price you should expect for a 512GB RAIDDrive: in excess of $1,000.

Fusion-io’s ioDrive is much faster on I/Os, but it has a hard time competing in throughput, plus it isn't bootable.